The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
Liberal Education: Its Ends and Future
Medieval Dogs, Three Films, and the Moral Contradictions of Storytelling
"Futurology" and the Fruit of Industrialism in Bellamy, Schiller, and Wendell Berry: Physical Comfort, Spiritual Regression? .
On Not Looking Backward: The Role of Historical Knowledge in Bellamy's Utopia
The New Totemism: The Use of Animal Images in Recent American Nature Writing
Life and Death and the American Graduate Student
POEMS
Pearl Divers
All Through March
Miners' Heaven
Coming Home
Outside The Sheldon Gallery, Early June .
A Clear Day in January
Summer
The Urgent, All Consuming
On Being Asked If a Friend Is Happy in Her Marriage
Still Life
Spring Rain Clears At Evening
A Kansas Anthem
Giuseppe Conte
After March
On First Hearing Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeth's Hospital
American Lit: Kerouac
REVIEWS
Charles Cagle; "An Oklahoma Portrait," Conversations with the Artist Charles Banks Wilson
Robert W. Richmond; Kansas, A Land of Contrasts
Abstract
MARTIN TROPP considers the message of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with reference to contemporary views of mind, body, and will. Tropp is Professor of English at Babson College. He is the author of scholarly articles on such writers as Nathaniel West, and two books, one on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein monster and the other on horror stories in modern culture, 1818- 1918.
Among the writers newly found in the more open society of Gorbachev's era, RICHARD L. CHAPPLE observes, the talent of Tatyana Tolstaya is notable for creating portraits of ordinary people of the middle class. They are human and they represent no cause and even no scores; they are believable individuals with qualities good and bad, and that is one reason why they are so appealing to us. Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University, Chapple has published books on Soviet satire and Dostoevsky, translated two stage works by Alexander Galin, and written numerous articles on Soviet literature, including an earlier piece on Yury Trifonov which appeared in this journal.
MAREN PARTENHEIMER and DAVID PARTEN HEIMER provide a translation of a work by Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker, a German physicist and philosopher, discussing the will to power and investigating its many sources. The translators also contribute a brief introduction; a poem dedicated to the author appears at the conclusion of the essay. Maren Partenheimer, Assistant Professor of German at Northeast Missouri State University, has published a book on Goethe and previous translations of German writings to English. David Partenheimer, Assistant Professor of English at Northeast Missouri State University, has produced many articles on German topics, several of them in the German language, as well as poems and translations into German of the works of others. The editor must gratefully acknowledge their Titanic efforts in crafting the present essay in a form both brief and accessible to this audience.
LINDA ANDREWS has published poetry previously in Tar River Poetry, Colorado North Review, Small Pond, and other journals. She is currently an M.F.A. candidate at the University of Washington. She lives in Kirkland, Washington, with her two children and for breadwinning purposes, writes and edits for a health-care organization.
KELLY CHERRY has published four novels and three books of poetry, most recently, Natural Theology (LSU Press, 1988). My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers, a novel in stories, appeared in 1990. Her first book of non-fiction will be published by LSU Press in 1990 or 1991. In 1989 she received the first Fellowship of Southern Writers Poetry Award. Her work has appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.
ANDREW DILLON teaches English at Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida, His poems have appeared recently in Kansas Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, Negative Capability, and other journals. His poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.
LOLA HASKINS teaches computer programming at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She has published three books of poems, the most recent of which is Forty-Four Ambitions for the Piano (University Presses of Florida, 1990). Her poems have also appeared in The Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, and numerous other journals, including The Midwest Quarterly.
FLEDA BROWN JACKSON's first book of poems, Fishing with Blood (Purdue University Press, 1988), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. She has published poems in Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, and other journals. She teaches English at the University of Delaware, where she edits the literary magazine. Her work has appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.
WILLIAM KLOEFKORN published two new collections of poems in 1989, Where the Visible Sun ls (Spoon River Press) and Drinking the Tin Cup Dry (White Pine Press). He has published recent poems in Oxford Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Zone 3, and South Dakota Review. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he teaches at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
GREG KUZMA is the author of several books of poetry and has published poems and reviews in many well-known journals. He teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.
DUANE LOCKE's latest poems appeared in American Poetry Review. A short story recently appeared in Thema, and a critical essay on Louis Simpson was recently reprinted in On Louis Simpson: Depths Beyond Happiness, edited by Hank Lazar. He lives in the slums of Tampa, Florida, with one wife, two dogs, and twelve cats. His poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.
HILARY LYON, Dallas, Texas, has published poems in The Literary Review, Poem, Poetry Northwest, and The Seattle Review. Her work has also appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.
G. D. RICHARDS, Jacksonville, Alabama, has published poetry in Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Nebraska Review, and other journals. A book of poems he did with two friends, The Trees are Mended, was published by Northwoods Press in 1986.
ROBERT TREMMEL formerly taught at Wichita State University but now teaches at Iowa State. His collection of poems, Driving the Milford Blacktop, is forthcoming from BkMk Press.
CHARLES WYATT is principal flutist of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. He has published poems in Epoch, The Smith, Beloit Poetry Journal, and other journals.
JOHN W. ROBERTS examines two films by Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles to show both the similarities and the ultimate differences in these filmmakers' views of evil and rectitude. A doctoral candidate in history at the University of Maryland, Roberts is Chief Archivist of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C. He has published articles on Adlai E. Stevenson, prison history, and archival theory in a number of journals.
JAMES F. MAXFIELD finds Charlie Chaplin's cinematic tramp an attempt by Chaplin to relive and put right the very real poverty and personal sadnesses of his own early years. Professor of English at Whitman College in Washington, Maxfield has published essays on Willa Cather and William Maxwell, on mystery fiction, and film. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled, Anxious Dreams: The Fatal Woman in American Film, 1941-1986.
In STEPHANIE DEMETRAKOPOULOS's view, John Ford's cinematic drunks exemplify a false Irish drinking ethos and a juvenile macho image, neither of which approaches the reality of alcoholism Ford surely understood. Professor of English at Western Michigan University, Demetrakopoulos is the author of Listening to Our Bodies: The Rebirth of Feminine Wisdom and co-author with Karla F. C. Holloway of New Dimensions of Spiritualism: A Biracial and Bicultural Reading of the Novels of Toni Morrison. She is working on a book dealing with women's spirituality in recovery from addictions.
ROBERT L. SHEVERBUSH is Professor of Psychology in the Pittsburg State University Department of Psychology and Counseling.
CHARLES CAGLE, who teaches fiction writing at Pittsburg State, wrote the entry for the novelist R. V. Cassill in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume Six (Gale, 1980).
WALTER SHEAR, who teaches American literature here, enthusiastically reviews the works of Charles Eaton for us, whether poetry or prose.
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Recommended Citation
Churchill, John; Griffin, Paul; Strawman, Thomas; Casement, William; Corpora, James; McKelly, James C.; Crow, Mary; Cunningham, Mark; Dacey, Philip; Jackson, Fleda B.; Kloefkorn, William; Kroll, Ernest; Kuzma, Greg; Lyon, Hilary; Pilkington, Ace G.; Ragan, Jacie; Salerno, Joe; Smetzer, Mike; Stortoni, Laura A.; Bergstedt, Lowell; Wallace, T. H. S.; Witt, Harold; O'Connor, Roger; Walther, Thomas R.; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1990)
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